Sunday, November 29, 2015

Today in History for Nov. 29, 2015

Clive Staples “C.S.” Lewis

Nov. 29, 1729 – Natchez Indians massacred 138 Frenchmen, 35
French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day
Natchez, Mississippi.

Nov. 29, 1775 - The Second Continental Congress, meeting in
Philadelphia, established a Committee of Secret Correspondence. The committee’s
goal was to provide European nations with a Patriot interpretation of events in
Britain’s North American colonies, in the hope of soliciting aid for the
American war effort.

Nov. 29, 1776 – During the American Revolutionary War, the
Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia came to an end with the arrival of
British reinforcements.

Nov. 29, 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong
murdered 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

Nov. 29, 1813 – During the War of 1812, the Battle of
Autosse took place at the Indian village of Autosse, on the southern bank of
the Tallapoosa River, 20 miles above its junction with the Coosa River in
Alabama. The battle lasted about two hours and was won by an American force of
about 950 Georgia militia led by American Brigadier General John Floyd and 400
friendly Creeks led by William McIntosh and the son of Mad Dog. During the rad,
over 200 hostile Creeks were killed and 400 dwellings were destroyed at the
cost to Floyd of 11 killed and 54 wounded.

Nov. 29, 1832 – Novelist Louisa May Alcott was born in
Germantown, Pa. She is best remembered for her 1868 book, “Little Women.”

Nov. 29, 1861 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought at Warner’s Ranch,
southwest of Los Angeles, Calif.

Nov. 29, 1861 – During the Civil War, the Confederate Legislature “accepted”
the admission of Missouri into the Confederacy and ordered a star added to the
flag in her honor, but in fact Missouri’s major cities and Mississippi River
banks were firmly in control of the Union.

Nov. 29, 1862 - John Palmer and John Scholfield were
promoted to major general for the Union army.

Nov. 29, 1864 – In what is now known as the “Sand Creek
Massacre,” Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacred at
least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants at Sand Creek inside the Colorado
Territory. Nine of Chivington’s men were killed; 148 of Black Kettle’s
followers were slaughtered, more than half of them women and children.

Nov. 29, 1864 – During the Battle of Spring Hill, a
Confederate advance into Tennessee missed an opportunity to crush the Union
Army. General John Bell Hood, who approached Franklin, Tenn. on this day, was
angered, which led to the Battle of Franklin the following day when Hood
attacked troops under John Scholfield.

Nov. 29, 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph
for the first time.

Nov. 29, 1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the
first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY.

Nov. 29, 1898 – Novelist and Christian apologist Clive
Staples “C.S.” Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland. A World War I veteran, he
was also good friends with fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkein. Lewis is best known
for his books, “The Chronicles of Narnia.”

Nov. 29, 1902 - The New York Medical Record published an
account of Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performing the first open heart surgery in
the western hemisphere when he sutured a knife wound in a young boy’s heart.
Dr. Hill was the father of Alabama politician and U.S. senator Lister Hill.

Nov. 29, 1902 – The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the
Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first
championship associated with an American national professional football league.

Nov. 29, 1918 – During World War I, Army Pvt. Lee Montgomery
of Beatrice, Ala. “died from disease.”

Nov. 29, 1918 – Newberry Award-winning novelist Madeleine
L’Engle was born in New York City. She is best known for her 1963 book, “A
Wrinkle in Time.”

Nov. 29, 1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd led the first
expedition to fly over the South Pole.

Nov. 29, 1946 – Thomas Charles Littles was born in Brewton,
Ala. He would be fatally wounded during the Vietnam War.

Nov. 29, 1961 – During Project Mercury’s Mercury-Atlas V
Mission, Enos, a chimpanzee, was launched into space aboard the
Mercury-Atlantis V. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down
off the coast of Puerto Rico.

Nov. 29, 1961 – Conecuh County’s annual Christmas Carnival,
which was sponsored by the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce, was scheduled to be
held on this Wednesday. The parade, which was to feature Santa Claus, was
scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m.

Nov. 29, 1962 - Major League Baseball decided to return to
only one All-Star Game a year beginning in 1963.

Nov. 29, 1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson established
the Warren Commission, headed by Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy.

Nov. 29, 1971 – Birmingham, Ala. native Lee May was traded
from the Cincinnati Reds to the Houston Astros.

Nov. 29, 1974 - Alabama author Ruby Pickens Tartt died in
York, Ala.

Nov. 29, 1974 – A public ribbon-cutting ceremony was
scheduled to be held at the new Southtown Plaza Shopping Center in Monroeville,
Ala. on this day after Thanksgiving. The ceremony was scheduled to begin at
8:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the shopping center, which was located on the
Highway 21 Bypass at Mayfield Street. The shopping center included a new
TG&Y store.

Nov. 29, 1987 - Venice Glenn of the San Diego Chargers ran
back an interception for 103 yards, setting a NFL record.

Nov. 29, 1990 - The United Nations Security Council
authorized the use of "all means necessary" to remove Saddam
Hussein's forces from Kuwait, giving Iraq the deadline of midnight on January
16, 1991, to leave or risk forcible removal.

Nov. 29, 1997 - Grambling State University football coach
Eddie Robinson coached his last college football game as Grambling’s Tigers
played the Southern University Jaguars at the Superdome in New Orleans.
Southern won, 30-7. Robinson had been coaching at Grambling, a historically
black college near Shreveport, for 55 seasons.